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Dispelling Five Mentoring Myths

Grant Professionals Association

Why should you consider mentoring? Myth #2: You Don’t Have Enough Time A mentor/mentee partnership can be whatever works best for you and your mentee - as simple as a quick phone call once every month or two. And in all honesty, you most likely had a grants mentor too, though it may not have been a formal mentor/mentee pairing.

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Teacher Well-Being: Beyond Yoga and Pizza Parties

Blackbaud

Many cite burnout as the primary reason they are leaving the teaching profession, and in response, schools are trying to pivot and focus on the well-being of their faculty and students. To begin, let’s listen to what teachers say is causing their burnout. Only then can we address the issue.

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7 eBooks for activists and donors: Ways to give back during Giving Season and beyond 

Candid

Get motivated to make doing good deeds a part of your life through acts of service and making time for others, like preparing a meal or mentoring. This toolkit provides practical strategies and exercises to help you contribute in meaningful ways while maintaining a healthy balance and avoiding burnout.

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2024 Blue Avocado Year in Review

Blue Avocado

Providing your nonprofits volunteers with the same recruitment, training, mentoring, and appreciation as your employees can reduce turnover and create a better overall volunteer experience. How can nonprofit leaders prevent burnout when theyre expected to perform minor miracles on a regular basis?

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Beyond efficiency: A human-first AI adoption strategy

Candid

Yet using AI adoption primarily to maximize time and cost efficiency will only exacerbate the burnout crisis in the sector. Nonprofit leaders could use them to have staff do the same tasks they’ve always done, just faster, or shift jobs from full-time work to part-time or contract work.

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Welcoming Critique to Improve My Project

HSF House

This made me think deeper about my project, as well as helped me learn about this process with the assistance of a mentor. I also believe that burnout is a very real problem, and with projects like these it can become prevalent. After several attempts my experiment was approved before the end of the semester.

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Why is leadership aspiration down among BIPOC nonprofit staff? 

Candid

But those who did not have a mentor, self-care and wellness support, or a supportive workplace were more likely to express leadership aspirations. BIPOC respondents reported similar levels of leadership aspiration regardless of whether they received management, fundraising, budget, or media training.

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